Tiger Woods is set to make his highly anticipated return to the PGA Tour this week at the 2023 Genesis Invitational at Riveria Country Club.
Tiger Woods is set to make his highly anticipated return to the PGA Tour this week at the 2023 Genesis Invitational at Riveria Country Club.
The 15-time major winner has never won at the Genesis Invitational, which is hosted by his TGR Foundation, but his presence alone is sure to draw a large crowd and generate excitement among golf fans. Woods has had a storied career, and his return to the sport after a series of injuries and personal setbacks is eagerly anticipated by fans and fellow golfers alike.
How to watch Tiger Woods PGA Tour return at Genesis Invitational
The tournament will take place at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, and coverage will be broadcast on the Golf Channel from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET on Thursday and Friday and from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET on Saturday and Sunday. CBS will also air coverage from 3 p.m. ET on Saturday and conclude at 3 p.m. ET on Sunday.
How to stream The Genesis Invitational
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The Waste Management Phoenix Open, First Round will begin this Thursday, February 9th, live from TPC Scottsdale.
The Waste Management Phoenix Open is one of the most highly anticipated events in the PGA TOUR season, and the first round begins this Thursday, February 9th, live from TPC Scottsdale. This event is known for its energetic atmosphere, with a record-breaking number of patrons reaching up to 200,000 guests during previous Saturday rounds.
The excitement surrounding the event is only heightened this year, with the NFL’s Super Bowl being held just miles away in Phoenix on Sunday. This has the potential to make this year’s Waste Management Phoenix Open the most thrilling edition in the event’s history.
Tune into the Golf Channel on Thursday to catch all the WM Open action, here is all the streaming information you need to know.
ESPN+will have exclusive coverage in the mornings and will also have coverage in the afternoons. You can follow all the action here with expanded and extended coverage for PGA Tour Live on ESPN+
Marquee Groups: 11:30 p.m. – 1 p.m. ET; Featured Groups & Holes: 11:15 a.m. – 1 p.m. ET, all available on ESPN+
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The Pebble Beach Pro-Am is one of the most iconic events on the PGA Tour and will continue on Saturday morning.
The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, one of the most iconic events on the PGA Tour will resume on Friday with the Second Round. The tournament is played over three beautiful and challenging courses in California’s Monterey Peninsula; Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill Golf Course, and Monterey Peninsula Country Club’s Shore Course.
The competition will use a three-course rotation, with golfers playing one round at each course before a 54-hole cut is made. The PGA TOUR LIVE will feature Featured Groups, allowing fans to watch their favorite golfers throughout the tournament.
Additionally, there is newly expanded and extended coverage on ESPN+, giving golf fans even more opportunities to catch all the excitement from the fairways.
ESPN+will have exclusive coverage in the mornings and will also have coverage in the afternoons. You can follow all the action here with expanded and extended coverage for PGA Tour Live on ESPN+
Marquee Groups: 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. ET; Featured Groups & Holes: 11:00 a.m. – 6 p.m. ET, all available on ESPN+
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College golf fans are going to be treated with plenty of live coverage this spring.
College golf fans are going to be treated with plenty of live coverage this spring.
NBC Sports announced Tuesday that Golf Channel and Peacock would air nearly 150 hours of live college golf this spring, with the main feature being the 2023 men’s and women’s NCAA Championships at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona. In addition, three of the top tournaments in the country will be also be televised.
Coverage begins Jan. 30-Feb. 1 in California with the Southwestern Invitational from North Ranch Country Club in Westlake Village. It will be broadcast from 4:30-7:30 p.m. ET.
Up next is the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate from Feb. 27-March 1 at Long Cove Club in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Last year, it became the first all-women’s regular season college event to be carried on Golf Channel. This year, it will be on from 2:30-5:30 p.m. ET.
The final regular season event is the Western Intercollegiate Pasatiempo Golf Club in Santa Cruz, California. It will broadcast April 10-12. The first two days will be live from 7-10 p.m. ET and the final day will be 4-7 p.m. ET.
The final three days of the women’s (May 22-24) and men’s (May 29-31) NCAA Championships will be broadcast as well, with nearly 70 hours of coverage being shown during those two weeks.
Vanderbilt is the top-ranked men’s team in the Golfweek/Sagarin rankings heading into the spring, while defending national champion Stanford is on top of the women’s rankings.
Golfweek recently caught up with the two-time LPGA winner.
One of golf’s great traditions to ring in the New Year is the wildly successful Morgan & Friends charity event, which raised just shy of $1 million this year for the fight against breast cancer.
Every January, Morgan Pressel brings some of the biggest stars on the LPGA to her home community of St. Andrews Country Club in Boca Raton, Florida. The membership at St. Andrews rises to the occasion every time as does Banyan Golf Club in nearby West Palm Beach, which puts on a second outing the following day.
Pressel, 34, started her foundation not long after she became the youngest major winner in tour history 16 years ago, at what’s now known as the Chevron Championship. Pressel’s mother Kathy died of breast cancer in 2003 and her memory is at the heart of this beautiful mission.
Now a lead analyst for Golf Channel’s LPGA coverage, Pressel has a different viewpoint of the tour she literally grew up on. Golfweek caught up with the two-time LPGA winner to talk about the work of her foundation and what fans might see on tour this season.
This is good news for golf fans grumbling about too many ads on TV.
It’s a common refrain for golf fans watching their favorite sport on TV: too many commercials during critical times of the weekend coverage.
Well, thanks to a deal with Callaway, the final hour of Sunday’s coverage of the Sentry Tournament of Champions on Golf Channel will be commercial free.
The Sentry Tournament of Champions can be seen on streaming services ESPN+ and Peacock and on TV on Golf Channel all four days and on NBC on Saturday and Sunday.
The typical handoff from cable to network TV is in reverse this week though. Usually it’s Golf Channel with the first chunk of coverage before turning things over to the over-the-air coverage on NBC or CBS.
For the Sentry, NBC has the first two hours of the weekend TV coverage from 4 to 6 p.m. ET while Golf Channel brings it home from 6 to 8 p.m. The final hour will be commercial free on TV and on the Peacock stream.
Sports Business Journal reports there may be more commercial-free coverage of the PGA Tour on Sundays down the line, with lead NBC producer Tommy Roy telling the publication: “Whenever we can have commercial-free golf, we do it. To get it here on the first designated event, to get it on Sunday, we’re really happy.”
Faxon, an eight-time winner on the PGA Tour, will be a hole announcer and contributor for NBC Sports’ studio coverage and will debut next month at the Honda Classic. Kaufman, also a winner on Tour, will join Notah Begay III, Arron Oberholser and John Wood as an on-course reporter. The network also announced that Curt Byrum will serve as an announcer, taking the place of fan-favorite David Feherty, who left to work for LIV Golf.
“We have the deepest roster in the game and are excited to showcase our new voices in Brad and Smylie as well as familiar faces in new roles as we start the 2023 PGA Tour season this week at Kapalua,” said Molly Solomon, Golf Channel’s executive producer.
Maltbie, 71, and Koch, 70, were told the network wanted to “refresh” its team. Meanwhile, Golf.com has reported Mark Rolfing, 73, has re-upped with the network with a multi-year deal that begins this week at the Sentry Tournament of Champions.
Damon Hack and Cara Banks will be reporters for tournament coverage while Dan Hicks and Paul Azinger will return to their respective play-by-play and lead analyst roles for a fifth consecutive year.
Golfweek has learned from multiple sources that Brad Faxon and Smylie Kaufman will join NBC Sports and Golf Channel.
Golfweek has learned from multiple sources that Brad Faxon and Smylie Kaufman will join the NBC Sports and Golf Channel announce team beginning in 2023.
Faxon, 61, won eight times on the PGA Tour and twice on the PGA Tour Champions and is renowned for his putting stroke. He still works with Rory McIlroy as a putting coach. He broke into the TV business in 2010 with NBC Sports, doing seven events before shifting to competing on the senior tour when he turned 50.
He was the lead golf analyst for Fox Sports for five years when the network held the rights to USGA events including the U.S. Open. Since NBC reacquired those package of events, Faxon has provided analysis for Sky Sports, the subscription-based channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland, which along with NBC and Golf Channel are owned by Comcast.
Faxon is expected to take over one of the tower assignments and will contribute to various ancillary programming such as the popular “Live From” show at majors. Faxon declined to comment.
Rory McIlroy and Brad Faxon at a practice round ahead of the 2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links. (Photo: Warren Little/Getty Images)
Kaufman, 31, played at LSU and won the PGA Tour’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in 2015 and played in the final group of the 2016 Masters, but has struggled with his game in recent years and no longer is an exempt player. He worked for ESPN and contributed to coverage of the PGA Championship and NBC’s Peacock coverage of the U.S. Open, as well as the U.S. Junior and a handful of fall events for the Golf Channel.
Kaufman is expected to be an on-course analyst and viewed as a direct response to CBS’s hiring of Colt Knost, who went from a part-time role last year to a full-time gig this season.
Former Golf Channel host Gary Williams said of Kaufman on his podcast “5 Clubs,” that Kaufman has a savant-like ability to talk like himself and give a thought in 12 seconds.
“Is it my path forever? I don’t know,” Kaufman told Williams of doing TV. “But for right now it seems to be what I enjoy doing. We’ll see. I think right now it seems to be the way I’m headed.”
Kaufman didn’t respond to phone or text messages.
Golfweek has also learned that Curt Byrum is in line to be elevated to the top PGA Tour team and work in the “super tower,” assuming the spot of David Feherty, who left to join LIV Golf in late July, and that Justin Leonard will scale back his TV role as he focuses full time on the senior circuit.
Byrum, 63, won the 1989 Hardee’s Classic on the PGA Tour, and has served as an analyst with Golf Channel since 2001. When Golf Channel and NBC merged, Byrum was the one Golf Channel analyst to be bumped immediately up to NBC.
“He’s both underrated and underappreciated,” said one NBC Sports veteran, who was not at liberty to speak on the hirings because details still were being finalized.
When reached on the phone, Byrum said that his current contract expires in December and he’s “thrown his hat in the ring but nothing confirmed as of yet.”
Leonard, 50, has spent the last few years as an analyst and contributor to “Live From.” But the former British Open champion, who last played as many as 13 Tour events in 2015-16, has made the decision to play full-time on the Champions Tour. Last year, he played his PGA Tour swansong at the Valero Texas Open and made four starts on the Champions Tour after turning 50, with a best result of T-14 at Furyk & Friends. Leonard may make a few cameo appearances with NBC, such as at the Ryder Cup. Notah Begay III, who also turned 50 earlier this year and played twice on the Champions Tour, is expected to build his playing schedule around his TV role.
An NBC Sports spokesman responded by saying, “We’re focused on celebrating Roger Maltbie and Gary Koch at the PNC Championship later this month and will be announcing any additional changes to our lineup early in the new year.”
NBC is expected to announce the hirings shortly, but may wait until after the PNC Championship, which ends Dec. 18, out of respect for Koch, who will be doing his last event.
NBC is following in the footsteps of CBS, which in late 2019 cut ties with Peter Kostis and Gary McCord as part of a youth movement in its announcing crew. Nick Faldo, 65, retired in August and The Eye promoted Trevor Immelman, who turns 43 on Dec. 16, to the top analyst position next to Jim Nantz.
O’Hurley has built a successful career, first with a decade at the Golf Channel and now through her own line of clothing.
“In Texas, it’s really all about the people, right?” Lisa O’Hurley said within the first two minutes of our conversation, explaining that she originally had no plans to play golf at Baylor University.
Now, the former Golf Channel executive can’t imagine what life would have been like without it.
The daughter of a country club manager who worked in Dallas, Houston and various other locales, O’Hurley’s first golf lesson came from future PGA Tour player Billy Ray Brown. By the time she was ready to pick a college, her family had moved to Arizona and she was playing for nationally renowned Xavier College Prep, which also spawned Cheyenne Woods, Grace Park and current Arizona State coach Missy Farr-Kaye. When a close friend from her high school team said she was going on college visits in Texas, O’Hurley jumped at the chance to join in, knowing how much she’d enjoyed her upbringing in the Lone Star State.
But when she got accepted at Baylor, the idea was to just attend, and not compete. That all changed quickly.
“I had no intention of playing golf there until about two weeks into my time there. Literally, they knocked on my dorm room door and said we’re starting a golf team and we understand that you play golf and we want you to be part of the team,” she said. ”So I said sure, and I played on the college team at Baylor.
“We were nowhere as good, in comparison, as my high school team. Not even close.”
Fast-forward some two-plus decades and O’Hurley has built a successful career around the game, first with over a decade at the Golf Channel and now through her own line of clothing that’s quickly gaining traction. As the CEO of Lohla Sport, O’Hurley has built on her six years with Golfino, a fashion sportswear company based in Germany, and used some European flair to go with some West Coast vibes to create a line that has quickly resonated with female golfers.
Former Golf Channel executive Lisa O’Hurley lives in Los Angeles with her husband, John, who has a long string of acting credits, including an iconic role on “Seinfeld.” (Contributed photo)
O’Hurley, who had built a healthy contacts list, reached out to 70 potential buyers on her Lohla line, even before she had any product to show. More than 50 bought it, sight unseen, and O’Hurley knew she was on to something. Still, it took a little luck for the whole thing to work as many clothing lines, especially those that popped up during the pandemic, quickly went under.
“Golf was the only thing that was marked safe and so the clubs were still open, the shops were still open, and that was enormous. If we were a brand that’s just something in department stores, we never would have made it. So I mean, the fact that the golf community could support itself so to speak was tremendous,” she said. “And then with COVID, we got to pick up a lot of new females who were new to the sport who aren’t used to wearing golf clothes.”
O’Hurley now lives in Los Angeles with her husband John — J. Peterman of “Seinfeld” fame — and she still plays plenty of golf while holding her Baylor roots dear. In fact, she’s become close with the current coach of the Bears’ women’s golf team, and often plays with the squad when they make a trip to Southern California.
“I guess one of my lucky gifts, you know, is keeping my connections going and always having these wonderful people in my life. And so I have kept really good friends with the current golf coach at Baylor, Jay Goble, and he and I have become very close. I’m just really still in tune with that team.”
Speaking of her husband, he made a recent appearance at a jazz club in San Antonio’s Pearl District. John O’Hurley has hosted “Family Feud,” was a contestant on “Dancing with the Stars” and hosts an annual charity golf tournament with former Major League Baseball star Josh Beckett (who lives in Boerne).
But while he’s a man of many talents, he’s currently an underdog when playing in a twosome with his wife.
“When we met, we were pretty even,” Lisa O’Hurley said. “I give him strokes now.”
The complaint further alleges monopolization, attempted monopolization and other unfair trade practices.
Attorney Larry Klayman announced the filing of a Second Amended Class Action Complaint in Palm Beach County’s 15th Judicial Circuit on Monday which alleges antitrust conspiracy to restrain trade and harm golf fans in the state of Florida, as well as “eliminate LIV Golf in its infancy.”
Named in the court filing are the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour Golf Channel and the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR).
The OWGR is alleged to be part of a conspiracy to restrain trade in violation of Florida’s antitrust laws because its board contains “the conflicted leadership of the PGA Tour and DP World Tour.” PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and DP World Tour chief executive Keith Pelley are both on the OWGR board.
The court filing alleges that consumers “have seen the quality of the product that they are paying for at PGA Tour events be diluted and destroyed by a deterioration of the talent level at PGA Tour events due to the exclusion of many of the top players in the world who have signed to LIV Golf.”
The court filing also claims tickets for the Players Championship in 2023 are 34 percent higher than in 2022, “and some packages for the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando, Florida are at least ten percent higher in 2023 than in 2022” and later refers to the increases as “supracompetitive prices.”
The complaint further alleges monopolization, attempted monopolization, group boycotts and other unfair trade practices. The first amended class action complaint to name the OWGR was filed on Nov. 4. The second amended complaint was e-filed Nov. 11. Golfweek confirmed with the 15th Judicial Circuit the second complaint is still pending at the time of this post’s publication. Offices were closed on Nov. 9th and 10th due to Hurricane Nicole and also on Nov. 11th for Veterans Day.
The second amended action “seeks actual and compensatory damages, in an amount to be determined” by a jury.
“Consumers, that is Florida golf fans including me, have as much right as anyone to benefit from a free market, which would allow all golf leagues and independent contractor players to fairly compete,” said Klayman via a release. “But the Defendants have illegally worked hard to prevent this, as the PGA Tour and its co-conspirator Defendants will not tolerate honest and fair competition, as it will challenge their trillion dollar plus monopoly to totally dominate the golf world.”
While representing LIV Golf’s Patrick Reed, Klayman refiled a $750 million defamation lawsuit in late September to add Golf Channel’s Damon Hack, Shane Bacon, as well as Golfweek columnist Eamon Lynch and its parent company, Gannett. Earlier this month, Klayman filed a new $250 million suit against a number of other prominent golf media members and organizations, including author Shane Ryan, Hachette, the New York Post and Fox Sports, as well as Associated Press golf writer Doug Ferguson and the organization for whom he works.
